Emotional Development Quotes

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

I was too young to know how to love her.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was unfair, or I was bullied by my sisters.

My dad kept me away from people who treat children wrong. It's just amazing that there is such a way to raise a person without giving them complexes. But nobody does it. They think it should be the old school. But look at the products. Wouldn't it be great if you could avoid the complexes? Then you could deal with the complexes of life.

We've all recognized the moment when the world has handed us a situation that is bigger than our youth can handle, and we have to grow up in a second. And when you do get to the other side, all it does is take us to this new level of existence that is more beautiful and more complex and, in some ways, more painful.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I'm really just expressing myself in every different stage of my life.

Most people acquire a softer side with age and sometimes with dad that has been quite weird to see.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.